James Owen Weatherall is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine.  He is the author, with Cailin O’Connor, of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale, 2019), which was selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Recommended Reading by Scientific American.  His previous books were Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing (Yale, 2016) and the New York Times bestseller The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013).   

He has published approximately 50 peer-reviewed research articles in journals in leading physics and philosophy of science journals and has delivered over 100 invited academic talks and public lectures